Follow-Lead Progression
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
When should I start leading? This is an important question. You need to balance safety with learned skills. Many climbers opt for following too long and are lured into a false sense of safety.
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Tags: falling, following, leading
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Performance vs. Recreation
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Falling is a hotly debated issue among climbers. The next series of lessons will dig into understanding falling so we can make better risk decisions.
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Tags: falling, motivation, performance, recreation
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Transitioning-Arousal
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
This lesson is the final step for using our minds. We’ve prepared, weighed the risk, and made a decision. Now we need to let go of the thinking process and shift into action. This lesson addresses a very important part in accomplishing this shift.
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Tags: arousal, transitions
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Intention
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
This lesson address intention and how it fits into decision-making.
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Tags: goals, intention, motivation
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Different Ways of Engaging
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
You engage yes-fall risks differently than no-fall risks. By “different” I mean you need to determine whether or not to listen to your mind’s doubts.
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Tags: no fall, yes fall
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Decision Points
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Risks contains decisions within decisions. How we utilize our analytical and intuitive intelligences changes as we go deeper into the risk.
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Tags: decision points, decisions, feeling, strategic, tactical, thinking
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No-Fall Yes-Fall
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
To make appropriate risk decisions we need to understand consequences experientially rather than just intellectually.
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Tags: consequences, experiential, no fall, yes fall
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Intuitive Intelligence
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
We’ve gone into the mechanics of how decisions are made in the previous lesson. Now, we need to address what will help us follow through with those decisions. The main driving force of our decisions is our motivation. Motivation, however, is determine by the goals we have.
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Tags: decisions, intuitive
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Motivation and Goals
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
We’ve gone into the mechanics of how decisions are made in the previous lesson. Now, we need to address what will help us follow through with those decisions. The main driving force of our decisions is our motivation. Motivation, however, is determine by the goals we have.
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Tags: dave macleod, end-results, goals, motivation, processes
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Decisions
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Decisions shift us from preparation to action. If we don’t make appropriate decisions we don’t take appropriate risks. Read more as we begin digging into the transition phase of risk-taking.
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Tags: decisions, transitions
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Yogi Berra
Sunday, April 11th, 2010Forks in our path require us to make decisions. What do you consider when making decisions?
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Tags: decisions, yogi berra
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Information Gathering
Monday, March 29th, 2010
This lesson addresses gathering objective information during preparation for a risk.
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Tags: lookings, objective, preparation
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Intentional Thinking
Monday, March 15th, 2010
This lesson addresses thinking intentionally, not habitually.
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Tags: habitual, intention, mental, thinking
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Resistance and Acceptance
Monday, March 1st, 2010
This lesson addresses resistance we feel concerning stress and the need to accept it.
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Tags: acceptance, resistance
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Intuitive vs. Analytical
Monday, February 15th, 2010
This lesson addresses how we each have a tendency toward being intuitive or analytical and how this tendency can interfere with our climbing.
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Tags: analytical, intuitive, preparation
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Expectations
Monday, February 1st, 2010
In the next series of lessons we’ll investigate the mind’s intelligence for preparing for risks. This lesson addresses how expectations effect preparation.
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Tags: dan millman, expectations, mind, preparation
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Mind Tricks
Monday, January 18th, 2010
This lesson looks at ways the mind tricks us into skirting the learning process. Your mind does have intelligence, which we’ll address in later lessons. For now, we need to understand its limitations so we don’t unconsciously waste attention. Labeling is one limiting tendency of the mind. Many people label a situation or outcome as “good” for instance. So, what do you mean by “good?”
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Tags: label, mind, tricks
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Who Am I
Monday, January 4th, 2010
This lesson addresses how random our thoughts are and helps us ponder the question: Who am I?
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Tags: attention, awareness, thinking
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Mental Lies
Monday, December 21st, 2009
This lesson addresses the way our minds can lie to us about situations we haven’t yet engaged.
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Tags: awareness, climbing, lies, mental, mind
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The Mind Comes Forth
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
This lesson addresses the natural tendency of our minds to be active.
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Tags: diamond sutra, mind, thinking
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Thinking vs. Awareness
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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This lesson will dig into the difference between thinking and awareness.
Tags: awareness, thinking
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Questioning the status quo
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
This week we’ll dig into questioning our status quo to help bring about the change that is required to improve.
Tags: awareness, modify, questioning, status quo, validate
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Seeking
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Matsuo Basho quote from Espresso Lessons book.
Tags: awareness, seeking
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